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NASA's "black box" transcripts - revealing comments made by the astronauts throughout the Apollo program that were captured by the CSM's DSE system, as well as touch on some of the scripting protocols employed during the various TV broadcasts made from the CSM during the journey to and from the Moon and while in lunar orbit. Contrary to what many think, those TV broadcasts were in fact elegantly scripted affairs, designed to rigidly control the amount of data that we, the general public, would have available to analyze. Because of this, the DSE and DSEA internal crew conversation transcripts can provide us, in the astronauts own words, an unscripted and less-guarded insight into some of the incredible things they really witnessed during their journey to and from the Moon.
During the Apollo lunar landing program, NASA made use of two primary flight telemetry/voice recording systems aboard their spacecraft. One of these systems was inside the Command/Service Module, and the other was mounted within the Lunar Module. These two systems were known as the DSE (aboard the CSM) and the DSEA (aboard the LM). The "Data Storage Equipment" systems essentially served as Black Box cockpit voice recorders, designed to tape some of the internal conversations between the astronauts while they were out of radio contact with Mission Control in Houston. After contact was re-established during the flight, Mission Control could then dump (downlink) the recorded data from the CSM to Earth, where it would be analyzed.
Unfortunately, NASA today claims that the original DSE Black Box tapes from the Apollo missions are missing and are presumed lost. However, these DSE recordings were transcribed shortly after the contents of the tapes were originally dumped from the CSM to the Earth, and several years after the Apollo program ended, these transcripts finally were declassified and then released to the NASA archives.
All the transcript pages shown in this presentation are official source documents, the online versions of which can be accessed here
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Awesome video... can someone provide a link to these declassified documents (assuming they can be found online)?
Anonymous, Within the post there is a link to the NASA archive that holds the declassified documents.
Here is a more direct link to the mission transcripts of Apollo 11: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/apollo11.htm
I haven’t gotten to look through them myself, but I will be spending a bit of time each day reading through the documents. It should be an intriguing read, if the claims by the video-maker are true.
no smoking gun, Check the context in which the quotes were taken from. Some were jokes. These weren't robots that went to space but real men that faced real danger and probably joked to relieve tension.
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